@axiomantic/llmlingua-2

Typed LLMLingua-2 prompt compression for Node, via @huggingface/transformers.

Dual ESM + CJS. Node ≥20. MIT-licensed. Bring-your-own @huggingface/transformers@^3 (peer dependency).

Install

npm install @axiomantic/llmlingua-2 @huggingface/transformers

@huggingface/transformers is declared as a peer dependency. Pin the same major version your application uses; we develop against ^3.

Quick start

import lingua from "@axiomantic/llmlingua-2";

const text = "Long meeting transcript or RAG context here...";
const { compressed, reverseMap } = await lingua.compress(text, { targetRatio: 0.5 });

// Hand `compressed` to your downstream LLM. Stash `reverseMap` only if you
// need a faithful round-trip later (see "Decompression semantics").
const restored = await lingua.decompress(compressed, reverseMap);
console.assert(restored === text);

The default import is a lazy singleton: the constructor stores config only; the ONNX model is downloaded from the Hugging Face Hub on the first compress call. Subsequent calls reuse the same model in memory.

API reference

LLMLingua2Wrapper

class LLMLingua2Wrapper implements LLMLinguaWrapper {
  readonly modelId: string;
  readonly version: string;
  readonly available: boolean;
  constructor(options?: WrapperOptions);
  compress(text: string, opts?: CompressOptions):
    Promise<{ compressed: string; reverseMap: unknown }>;
  decompress(compressed: string, reverseMap: unknown): Promise<string>;
}

WrapperOptions

CompressOptions

CompressResult

interface CompressResult {
  compressed: string;
  reverseMap: unknown;   // opaque to consumers; pass back to decompress
}

Error hierarchy

class LLMLingua2Error extends Error { readonly code: string }
class LLMLingua2NotAvailableError extends LLMLingua2Error    // code: "ENOT_AVAILABLE"
class LLMLingua2InvalidReverseMapError extends LLMLingua2Error  // code: "EINVALID_REVERSE_MAP"

Catch any library-originated error with instanceof LLMLingua2Error; switch on .code for stable identification.

Decompression semantics

LLMLingua-2 is a one-way lossy compressor. The model predicts a per-token "preserve" probability and drops the lowest-scoring tokens; there is no learned decoder. To honor the decompress(compressed, reverseMap) → original contract, this library stashes the original text inside the reverseMap payload so decompress is a faithful round-trip.

Practical consequences:

• decompress does not load the model. It just reads reverseMap.originalText. You can call it without ever paying the model-download cost.
• If you don't need round-trip (you're only sending compressed to a downstream LLM), discard reverseMap immediately to free memory.
• reverseMap is JSON-serializable. You can persist it to disk or send it over the wire and decompress later in a different process.
• The name decompress is dictated by the pinned interface contract, not by the model's actual capabilities. This is documented behavior, not a bug.

Model provenance

The default model is atjsh/llmlingua-2-js-xlm-roberta-large-meetingbank on the Hugging Face Hub: an ONNX export (int8 + fp32 variants) of Microsoft Research's LLMLingua-2 trained on the MeetingBank dataset.

We strongly recommend pinning revision to a specific commit hash in production. The default behavior (no pin) follows the Hub's main branch and is subject to upstream changes.

A future minor release may re-host the ONNX weights under the axiomantic/ namespace for supply-chain durability; the default modelId will change in a clearly-documented major or minor bump if it does.

Limitations (v0.1)

• English-biased sentence chunking. The chunker splits on ., !, ? followed by whitespace. CJK, Arabic, and other non-whitespace scripts may collapse into a single chunk and exceed the 512-token limit; transformers.js then truncates. The full original text remains accessible via reverseMap.originalText so decompress round-trips correctly.
• No streaming compress. compress accumulates per-chunk output into a single string.
• available is a snapshot. Reading wrapper.available immediately after construction returns false; await the first compress call to ensure the model is ready, or poll available after dispatching one compress.
• No browser / WebGPU support in v0.1. Designed for Node ≥20.
• Integration test not on PR CI. Real model load downloads ~560 MB; run npm run test:integration locally with LLMLINGUA_INTEGRATION=1. The same suite runs nightly (Mondays 07:00 UTC) and on workflow_dispatch via .github/workflows/integration.yml.

CJS usage

This package ships both ESM (dist/index.js) and CJS (dist/index.cjs) builds; Node's exports resolution selects the right one automatically.

// CommonJS
const lingua = require("@axiomantic/llmlingua-2").default;
const out = await lingua.compress("...");

// or from an ESM-only consumer
const lingua = (await import("@axiomantic/llmlingua-2")).default;

Contributing

Source: github.com/axiomantic/llmlingua-2.

To re-export the ONNX model from a PyTorch checkpoint, see scripts/convert.sh (operator-runnable; not exercised in CI).

npm install
npm test            # unit tests, mocked transformers
npm run typecheck
npm run build
npm run test:integration   # downloads ~560 MB; opt-in

Prior art

@atjsh/llmlingua-2 (repo) is an earlier JavaScript/TypeScript implementation of LLMLingua-2 by the same author who produced the ONNX export this package consumes. If you want a more direct port with a different API surface, consider it.

This package is an independent implementation focused on a pinned LLMLinguaWrapper contract, dual ESM/CJS distribution, Sigstore provenance, and integration tests that assert against real model output.

License & attribution

MIT. Copyright (c) 2026 Axiomantic. See LICENSE.

This package wraps Microsoft LLMLingua-2 (MIT) and the atjsh ONNX export (see upstream for terms).

Citation

If you use this library in academic work, please cite the underlying LLMLingua-2 paper:

@inproceedings{pan-etal-2024-llmlingua,
    title = "{LLML}ingua-2: Data Distillation for Efficient and Faithful Task-Agnostic Prompt Compression",
    author = "Pan, Zhuoshi and
      Wu, Qianhui and
      Jiang, Huiqiang and
      Xia, Menglin and
      Luo, Xufang and
      Zhang, Jue and
      Lin, Qingwei and
      R{\"u}hle, Victor and
      Yang, Yuqing and
      Lin, Chin-Yew and
      Zhao, H. Vicky and
      Qiu, Lili and
      Zhang, Dongmei",
    editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
      Martins, Andr{\'e} and
      Srikumar, Vivek",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: {ACL} 2024",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.57",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.57",
    pages = "963--981",
}